How to Merge My Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also perseverance. Sadly, you will not be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge My Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained formerly. This procedure could take a while as well as the archive will act as a very little backup, must you make a decision to deactivate or remove your account. It will not be of terrific aid in recovering any Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your details and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first page. In addition locate where it states You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... and also click the respective link. This will certainly guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on exactly how big your major and also your broadened archive are and how many other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. And also with that said I mean a couple of hours.
Note that you should Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your own photos are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this treatment another back-up, it is also a whole lot faster and might supply you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Regrettably, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any supported third party account (CSV data are also supported) using the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as get in touches with imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I wrote a different article on the best ways to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only call information of friends that have agreed to have their email address included in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge letdown. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party devices. Today, the archive merely works as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including general account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or conceal your individual Settings. I wish I had great information, however as I stated in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed background will be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were labelled in, locations you explored, all the Likes you released or obtained, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, as well as other documents you built up gradually. Your images and also friends are actually all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly lose access to them.
When you have taken care of admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make certain you wish to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and also visit the Erase My Account page to start the process. We have formerly described The best ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, ought to the account get compromised. Facebook never planned to provide a bring back attribute; rather they were legally forced to supply a method for customers to download their Data. Consequently, users are entrusted nothing but half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, need to they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would bother you most if you needed to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?